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David Crawford Wins Again With "Bovine Wine"

David Crawford is our favorite humor writer from Kelowna, British Columbia. He just won America's Funniest Humor Writing Contest- for the 4th time!

Here is the winning column.



Do You Have the Cojones?

Danny Gallagher lists 8 of the ballsiest bets that paid off big.



Danny Gallagher and the 10 Funniest Celebrity Near Deaths

Danny Gallagher brings us the 10 Funniest Celebrity Near Deaths.





Pond Ripples Magazine Interviews Wanda Argersinger

Pond Ripples is a "Christian literature and visual art e-zine." Recently they published this great interview with Wanda Argersinger.



'Sitting on Cold Porcelain' Sitting Pretty on Top 25 List

Rose Valenta celebrated a little extra this holiday season- her book Sitting on Cold Porcelain made the Top 25 2010 Self Published Novels by Gelati's Scoop. Congratulations Rosie!



Cookie Tin

It’s December 24th and my brother and his wife sent me a tin of cookies and chocolate for Christmas. That’s nice. All the different confections are in separate plastic bags with decorative ties. Classy. (The good thing is now I have a supply of treats to last until at least the Sugar Bowl. We are lucky Ohio State is even IN the Sugar Bowl with all of the championship ring selling and tattoo getting. But that’s another story.)

For now I am just going to have some of this white chocolate. Actually, it’s not even chocolate because white chocolate doesn’t have cocoa in it. What I can report is that it is really, really good. Maybe too sweet. There are about 8 pieces in the little bag. I’m just going to have 3 and close it up for later. It’s A Wonderful Life is on. I love this movie. I like how Uncle Billy stumbles in to all those trash cans and makes a huge ruckus and George just stares at him.

Man, I shouldn’t have the rest of these pieces but the bag is already open. That’s way too much sugar for one person. Especially with my current weight. Wow, those pieces are smaller than they looked originally.



Skin Graft Elf

Angela Weight joins the magic elf tradition in Georgia only to inflict some elfy damage.



Interview- Rose Valenta

Rose Valenta took a break from sitting on cold porcelain to submit to an interview with Wanda Argersinger.



How To Tell a Story- Mark Twain

HOW TO TELL A STORY

The Humorous Story an American Development.—Its Difference
from Comic and Witty Stories.

I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told, for I have been almost daily in the company of the most expert story-tellers for many years.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind—the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.

The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point. The humorous story bubbles gently along, the others burst.



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